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One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus A-Level There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A-Level
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A-Level The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) A-Level
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach A-Level All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers A-Level
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran A-Level "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words A-Level
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) A-Level Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman A-Level
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A-Level Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A-Level
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley A-Level Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) A-Level
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A-Level Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben A-Level
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D A-Level Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence A-Level
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, A-Level "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A-Level
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A-Level Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker A-Level
